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Rise and fall of Russia 1600 - 1917

By tajmorgan2004
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    Rule of Peter I (the Great")

    First tsar to use the title Emperor

  • St Petersburg Established as the new capital

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    Romanov empire expanded

    Romanov empire expanded to include Crimea, Ukraine, Georgia and some parts of Poland

  • Napoleon invaded Russia

    Tsar Alexander I ordered the burning of Moscow, resulting in Napoleon's defeat

  • Russian army officers tried to force the new tsar

    Nicholas I to introduce political reform in the Decembrist Uprising
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    Russia defeated in Crimean War

  • Emancipation Edict abolished serfdom in Russia

  • Alexander II assassinated

    Alexander II assassinated by terrorist group "The Peoples Will"
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    Rule of Nicholas II

  • Russian Social Democratic Party split

    Russian Social Democratic Party split into Menshevik and Bolshevik factions

  • Strikes in St Petersburg

    Strikes in St Petersburg's Putilov Metalworks factory spread quickly to other parts of the empire
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    Russo-Japanese War

    Russo-Japanese War resulted in the 1905 Revolution and the announcement of the October Manifesto

  • Bloody Sunday shootings led to widespread unrest

  • Russia's Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich was assassinated

  • First Russian soviet workers established to protest

    The first Russian "soviet" (workers and soldiers council) was established to organise political activity in protest against the tsar. Soviets would become an important political force again in 1917

  • Unrest reached Russia's Military

    Unrest reached Russia's military, and the sailors on the Potemkin battleship mutinied

  • Peasant Groups made public demands

    Some peasant groups and national minorities made public demands for autonomy, threatening the stability of the empire

  • Nicholas released the October Manifesto

    Facing as many as 2 million strikers across the empire and increasing terrorist activity, Nicholas released the October Manifesto. Most strikes were settles, but assassinations and revolutionary activity continues
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    Russia involved in WW1

  • Nicholas II abdicated

    Nicholas II abdicated and power was transferred to the Provisional Government

  • Bolshevik Party seized power

    Bolshevik Party seized power from the Provisional Government in a coup

  • The Romanov family executed

    The Romanov family executed in Bolshevik agents as the Russian Civil War escalated